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Childhood Quotes
"A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants."
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"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."
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"CORALINE'S STORYTHERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END."
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"We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call 'God's birds' because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?"
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"It is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything additional to cry about, thank you very much."
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"I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me."
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"Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up."
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"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
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"Children do not always appreciate their parents encouraging them to explore and grow. The selfishness of a child manifests itself in his or her intent to remain a child and never enter an adult world of distress, disappointment, and jadedly surrendering an envisioned life by making commitments that limit boundless options."
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"My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories."
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"There's something about childhood friends that you just can't replace."
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"When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times."
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"When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!"
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"Every child matures, which is both a blessing and a damn shame. Children can imagine worlds that never exist, worlds far more interesting and consoling than an adult knows."
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"My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!"
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"And yet a child's utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes."
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"Our culture sentimentalizes children, and we forget one of the things that we should most remember from that time of our lives: Children know that this world can be hard on them, harder than it is on adults. They are physically weaker than adults, financially dependent, and in times of danger, nothing clarifies our thinking more than an awareness of our extreme vulnerability."
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"The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes."
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"For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood."
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"We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents."
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"Gingerbread houseswith gumdrops and peppermintand marshmallow snow."
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"I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11."
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"Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years."
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"And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then."
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"It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals."
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"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."
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"I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy."
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"I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up."
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"My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way."
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"I loved it in the unconditional way that children love their first home."
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"Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it."
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